In this March 2016 lecture, Dr. Wally Broecker discusses the changes that global warming will bring to our planet.

Broecker, whose research has focused mainly on defining the ocean’s role in climate change, is known as the grandfather of climate science.

Winner of the 1996 U.S. National Medal of Science, Broecker is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Society, a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and of the European Geophysical Union, and a senior sustainability fellow at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.